Awesome, Spellbinding, Brilliant. Superlatives fail me.

This documentary explains all the events leading up to the recording of Graceland, and includes footage from The African Concert (1987) (V), form a perspective 10 years on.

The concert was recorded live in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1987. The tracklist features seventeen songs including 'You Can Call Me Al', 'Graceland', 'Diamonds On The Soles Of My Shoes', 'Hello My Baby', 'Homeless', 'Stimela', 'Gumboots' and 'Whispering Bells'.

Paul Simon is a tremendous artist and mixed with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba the result is tremendous.

T Shirts proclaiming 'Free Nelson Mandela' appear in the audience, and the musicians make several references to the politics of the time. Recall 1985-7 and the shame of the then government of South Africa.

The music is first class, the singing tremendous, and the download conveys the atmosphere of the event. If you are a Paul Simon fan this is essential. Also essential is The African Concert (1987) (V), the full concert.

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Singer Paul Simon and several African musicians perform a concert to benefit victims of apartheid in South Africa.

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